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Indy games

Posted on April 13, 2009  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Game design, Video Games

Here are three really good looking Independent games I just found:

Machinarium


Machinarium Preview 02 from Amanita Design on Vimeo.

And my all time favourite Nathan Jurevicius IP “Scary girl”:


Scarygirl Game Trailer from Touch My Pixel on Vimeo.
There is a bit of discussion going on here if you are interested:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/03/26/scarily-good-the-scary-girl-trailer/#more-9562
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Rigging trends

Posted on April 11, 2009  | 2 Comments
Filed under Animation

Animation is really hard but with a good rig animation can be a lot of fun. Here are some of the features you should ask your “local rigger”.

This is Victor Vinyals’ showreel, a fine rigger from Barcelona.

You can find a higher quality video on his website:

http://www.luvictu.com/

Ah what a nice rig…..

2d walk

Posted on April 10, 2009  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Animation

greek_walk

I was visiting the “Atelier” 2d animation school this morning and got inspired to do a 2d animation test from rough to clean up using TV Paint and my TabletPC.

It was tedious but I learnt few things doing it. Man clean up is tough! No wonder people prefer to use Flash.

The Hot 100 Game Developers of 2009

Posted on April 2, 2009  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Game design

http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-hot-100-game-developers-2009?page=0,1

Game design

Posted on April 2, 2009  | Leave a Comment
Filed under Game design

for some reason I am really interested in game design at the moment so I decided to create a new category in my blog and share some links.

For a start here is a game I found on Sirlin.net. It is called “Don’t look back” and is demonstrating what I think is the core of game design. As summarised by someone “fun derives from exploring new puzzles and combinations that offer patterns that the brain doesn’t master yet and needs to discover and learn.” (“The Theory of fun” by Raph Koster, Chief Cretive Officer of Sony Entertainment)

AE Button plus

Posted on March 26, 2009  | 1 Comment
Filed under Life hack, Windows Mobile

I just found that great Windows Mobile application. AE Button plus:
http://ae.inc.ru/aebplus.php

This application allows you to map any function to the different hardware buttons. Instead of only controlling the Volume, I have set the VolumeUp button to open the Task manager and the VolumeDown button to do ALT+Tab, both on double click.

The amount of possible combinations is amazing. AEB plus also recognizes triple press and long press. This application is definitely a must have. You could for example allocate the camera function to the hang up button which is great if like me you are using the default Windows Mobile UI.

Last day at Rare, starting some new adventures!

Posted on March 24, 2009  | 2 Comments
Filed under Rare

last chat with Conker

As a recent article in Edge indicated, Rare will be laying off some of their staff. I was unfortunate to be part of those and my last day at Rare will be this Friday 27th.

Things are not too bad though, I already have few things lined up and even got some really interesting offers in feature, TV and games. I was really tempted to take some long holidays in South America but since in this business it is all about timing, I will instead focus on choosing the best offer for my career.

I have had a great time at Rare and enjoyed every minute of it. From the first day everybody was really friendly and welcoming and it didn’t take me too long to become part of the Rare family. After 18 month, it is sad to be leaving all the talented people I met there but I am sure I will meet them again in the future!

The Story of the “Ribbon”

Posted on March 21, 2009  | 1 Comment
Filed under GTD

If you have 1 hour to kill and interested in User interface design, watch “The story of the Ribbon”, a presentation by Microsoft Office User Experience Manager, Jensen Harris. Jensen is such a good speaker/story teller that after 30minutes I was convinced that the new Microsoft Office interface was just the best thing on earth…… where is the Print button again? 😉

ribbon1

Microsoft OneNote 2007

Posted on March 21, 2009  | 4 Comments
Filed under GTD, Life hack, Tablet PC

onenotee

Lifehacker.com posted such a good introduction to OneNote last year that I will just paraphrase them and add few more comments.

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System recovery strategy

Posted on March 21, 2009  | Leave a Comment
Filed under IT, Life hack

What would you do if your computer decided not to restart? Few days ago my main HD decided not to restart, just when I was working on my new showreel. I normally have a pretty good System recovery strategy but since last time I reinstalled my system was 2 or 3 years ago, I wasn’t too sure if I had a backup. Luckily I had, so it was really easy to get back to a working desktop.

In the light of that, I have decided to share with you what is my “System recovery strategy”, maybe you will find something useful here.

Right now I don’t have time to go into too much detail so I am posting a version v1.0 which I will update if anyone is interested.

As usual I am using OneNote so here is the PDF:

System recovery strategy v1.0

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